The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 49

‘Oh, for pity’s sake, my brother,’ shrieked the little creature, ‘help me, and put me back into the river, and I will repay you some day.

Who acts: ’, I · What happens: shriek, help, put back, repay · To what, where: little creature, me, river, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (’, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 sake	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 sake	case
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sake	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 pity	case
7	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brother	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sake	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shrieked	punct
12	’	'	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 shrieked	nsubj
13	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 brother	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 creature	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 creature	amod
16	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shrieked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
19	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 shrieked	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 help	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
23	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 help	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	back	back	ADV	_	23 put	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 river	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 river	det
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 repay	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 repay	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 repay	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 repay	aux
33	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 help	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 repay	obj
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 repay	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	shriek	past	’	the little creature				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location creature=Theme
2	help	infinitive			me			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
3	put back	infinitive			me	the river		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal
4	repay	future	I		you		day	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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